University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Commerce by a Frozen Sea
Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Commerce by a Frozen Sea is a cross-cultural study of a century of contact between North American native peoples and Europeans. During the eighteenth century, the natives of the Hudson Bay lowlands and their European trading partners were brought together by an increasingly popular trade in furs,...
Tea Sets and Tyranny
The Politics of Politeness in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Even as eighteenth-century thinkers from John Locke to Thomas Jefferson struggled to find effective means to restrain power, contemporary discussions of society gave increasing attention to ideals of refinement, moderation, and polished self-presentation. These two sets of ideas have long seemed separate,...
Subjects unto the Same King
Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Land ownership was not the sole reason for conflict between Indians and English, Jenny Pulsipher writes in Subjects unto the Same King, a book that cogently redefines the relationship between Indians and colonists in seventeenth-century...
by Susan Juster
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence—blood sacrifice,...
Embodied History
The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts...
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
A Quaker in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed...
Crimes of the Holocaust
The Law Confronts Hard Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military...
Mortal Remains
Death in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars...
First Lady of Letters
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to...
Beat Cop to Top Cop
A Tale of Three Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history...
The Settlers' Empire
Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion,...
The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand
Roanoke's Forgotten Indians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire...
by Everett Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
"Mark Twain endures. Readers sense his humanity, enjoy his humor, and appreciate his insights into human nature, even into such painful experiences as embarrassment and humiliation. No matter how remarkable the life of Samuel...
Banished
Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
A community is defined not only by inclusion but also by exclusion. Seventeenth-century New England Puritans, themselves exiled from one society, ruthlessly invoked the law of banishment from another: over time, hundreds of people were forcibly excluded from this developing but sparsely settled colony....